1. convene -- (meet formally; "The council convened last week")
2. convoke, convene -- (call together; "The students were convened in the auditorium")

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Thus to convene the whole ethereal stat. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

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"That pack of brats they convene on the Place du Pantheon by my life urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday If one were to squeeze their noses, milk would burst out. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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The Congress convenes every Twelfth-month for you. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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An assembly was therefore convened at Mecone in order to settle these points. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens

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When Jove convened the senate of the skies. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

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Meanwhile, convened at Priam's palace-gate. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

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Nearly all the Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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Myriel was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy convened at Paris. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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On some particular auspicious day, an assembly of citizens should be convened in the temple of Saraswati. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana

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and so on but as soon as the war was touched on, or what the nobility had been convened for, the talk became undecided and indefinite. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy